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Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator for 
Every Day in the Year. Compiled by Wallace 
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/ do not recollect that in the course of my life I ever for- 
feited my word or broke a promise made to any one. 

I am a member of an infant empire, a philanthropist by 
character, and a citizen of the great republic of humanity at 
large. 




3anuar? 

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little 
spark of celestial fire — conscience. 




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FIRS T 

1 hope I shall always possess 
firmness and virtue enough to 
maintain what I consider the 
most enviable of all titles, the 
character of an honest man. 

SECOND 

As an honest man, be content 
with justice. 

THIRD 

Errors once discovered are more 
than half corrected. 

FOURTH 

A waste of time is of more impor- 
tance than is generally imagined. 

FIFTH 

The best way to defeat and dis- 
concert is to take no notice. 










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SIXTH 

It is good policy at all times to 
place one's adversary in the 
wrong. 

SEVENTH 

Delicacy, if matters become seri- 
ous, must yield to expediency. 

EIGHTH 

I despise everything that carries 
the appearance of affectation. 

NINTH 

It is much easier at all times to 
prevent an evil than to rectify 
mistakes. 

TENTH 

From thinking proceeds speak- 
ing ; thence to acting is often but 
a single word. 



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ELEVENTH 

In a case where facts can be re- 
sorted to, there is no occasion to 
exercise judgment. 

TWELFTH 

There is scarcely an action, the 
motive to which may not be sub- 
ject to a double interpretation. 

THIRTEENTH 

Good judgment and experimental 
knowledge properly exerted never 
can, when accompanied by integ- 
rity and zeal, go wrong. 

FOURTEENTH 

Concealment is a species of mis- 
representation. 





FIFTEENTH 

It is necessary that a young man 
should have objects of employ- 
ment. 



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SIXTEENTH 

Love may, and therefore ought 
to be, under the guidance of 
reason. 

SEVENTEENTH 

A sensible woman can never be 
happy with a fool. 

EIGHTEENTH 

It is your interest to sell high ; it 
is mine to buy low. 

NINETEENTH 

In the composition of the human 
frame there is a good deal of in- 
flammable matter. 

TWENTIETH 

^- Wisdom, justice, and liberality 
are the palladium of good policy. 

TWENTY-EIRS T 

Precedents are dangerous things. 



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The moment is important. 

TWENTY- THIRD 



Economy in all things is as com- 
mendable in the manager as it is 
beneficial and desirable in the 
employer. 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

Promote frugality and industry by 
example, encourage manufac- 
tures, and avoid dissipation. 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

The consequences of a lax or 
inefficient government are too ob- 
vious to be dwelt upon. 

TWENTY- SIXTH 




We have three interests to attend 
to: the common interest, state K 
interests, and individual interests. 





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TWENTY-SEVENTH 

To contract new debts is not th 
way to pay old ones. 



TWENTY-EIGHTH 





Idleness is disreputable unde 
any circumstances. 



TWENTY-NINTH 



Influence is no government. 



THIRTIE TH 

(< When one side only of a story i 
heard and often repeated, the hu 
man mind becomes impressei 
with it insensibly. 



THIRTY-FIRS T 

Republicanism is not the phan 
torn of a deluded imagination. 



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Perfection falls not to the share of mortals. 





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jFebruar^ 

FIRST 

Every valuable end of government 
is best answered by the enlight- 
ened confidence of the people 



SECOND 

My inclinations are strongly bent 
to arms. 

THIRD 

No person can be readier to ac- 
cuse me, than I am to acknowl- 
edge an error when I am guilty 
of one. 

FOURTH 

Words never made an impression 
on my mind when they were con- 
tradicted by actions. 



FIFTH 

Integrity and firmness are all I 
can promise. 










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Tebruar? 

SIXTH 

In every act of my administration 
I have sought the happiness of 
my fellow-citizens. 

SEVENTH 

Whilst I am in office I never suf- 
fer private convenience to inter- 
fere with what I conceive public 
duty. 

EIGHTH 

To inveigh against things that are 
past and irremediable is unpleas- 
ing. 

NINTH 



I have no better guide than up- 
right intentions and close investi- 
gation. 

TENTH 

I am as unwilling to have any 
person in my service forced to 
work when they are unable, as I 
am to have them skulk from it 
when they are fit for it. 



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TFebruar? 

ELEVENTH 

The approbation of my country is 
my abundant reward. 



TWELFTH 

Every faculty I possessed was 
joined to the efforts of the virtue, 
talents, and valor of my fellow- 
citizens to effect our independ- 
ence. 

THIRTEENTH 

Nothing is more useful for the 
formation of correct habits, than 
the turning of our comments upon 
others, back upon ourselves. 

FOURTEENTH 

I have a generous soul, sensible 
of wrongs, and swelling for re- 
dress. 

FIFTEENTH 

It is my great and sole desire to 
live and die in peace and retire- 
ment. 










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SIXTEENTH 

My first wish is to do for the best. 

SEVENTEENTH 

The presidency has no enticing 
charms and no fascinating allure- 
ments for me. 

EIGHTEENTH 

I have no object separated from 
the general welfare to promote. 

NINE TEENTH 

The more I am acquainted with 
agricultural affairs, the better I 
am pleased with them. 

TWENTIETH 

The benign influence of good laws 
under a free government is the 
ever favorite object of my heart. 



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Tfebruar? 

TWENTY-FIRST 

I have never been indisposed to 
do whatever might be in my 
power in favor of those whose 
misfortunes have been unavoid- 
ably brought upon them without 
any fault of their own. 

TWENTY-SECOND 



If I had been permitted my first 
and fondest wish, I should have 
remained in a private station. 

TWENTY- THIRD 

Happy is he who gets the berth 
nearest the fire! 

TWENTY- FOURTH 

No reception can be so congenial 
to my feelings as a quiet entry 
devoid of ceremony. 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

I have to the utmost of my knowl- 
edge consulted the good of my 
country. 






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TWENTY-SI XTH 

I have felt, in too many instances, 
the expansion of tradesmen's 
consciences where no previous 
agreement had been made, ever 
to put it in their power to charge 
what they please. 

TWENTY- SEVENTH 

My errors shall be of the head, 
not of the heart. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 

I am conscious only of having 
( done my duty. 




TWENTY-NINTH 

My one wish is to see everything 
settled upon the best and surest 
foundations for the peace of man- 
kind, without regard to this, that, 
or the other nation. 



To be prepared for war is one of the most 
effectual means of preserving peace. 




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FIRST 

Nations are not influenced, as 
individuals may be, by disinter- 
ested friendship. 

SECOND 

The vicissitudes of war are not 
within the reach of human control. 

THIRD 

Regiments are costly articles 
everywhere. 

FOURTH 

If real danger threatened the 
country, no young man ought to 
be an idle spectator of its defence. 

FIFTH 

Because a man has rolled a snow- 
ball till it has acquired the size of 
a horse is no sign that he might 
do so till it was as large as a 
house. 










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SIXTH 

The art of war is at once compre- . 
hensive and complicated. 

SE VENTH 

The acts of my administration are 
on record. By these I expect to 
be judged. 

EIGHTH 

Keep an account book and enter 
therein every farthing of your 
receipts and expenditures. 

NINTH 

Treaties which are not built upon 
reciprocal benefits are not likely 
to be of long duration. 

TENTH 

It is not the lowest priced goods 
that are always the cheapest. 



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ELEVENTH 

I hope the spirit of this country 
will never suffer itself to be in- 
jured with impunity by any nation 
under the sun. 

TWELFTH 

A government which required 
only a knowledge of the truth to 
justify its measures could not but 
be anxious to have this fully and 
frankly displayed. 

THIRTEENTH 

Although we may be a little wrong 
now and then, we shall return to 
the right path with more avidity. 

FOURTEENTH 

The idea of disinterested favors 
or friendship from any nation 
whatever is too novel to be cal- 
culated on. 

FIFTEENTH 



The game is in our own hands; 
to play it well is all we have to do. 












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SIXTEENTH 

In a government as free as ours, 
allowances must be made for oc- 
casional effervescences. 

SE VENTEENTH 

We are all the children of the 
same country. 

EIGHTEENTH 

Suspicions unfounded and jeal- 
ousies too lively are irritating to 
honest feeling. 

NINETEENTH 

If private wealth is to supply the 
defect of public retribution, it will 
greatly contract the sphere within 
which the selection of characters 
for office is to be made. 

TWENTIE TH 

Keep every one in their places 
and to their duty. 



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TWENTY-FIRST 

Housekeeping, under any circum- 
stances and with the best econ- 
omy, is expensive. 

TWENTY-SECOND 

A steady perseverance, and our 
spirited exertions, will put things 
right again. 

TWENTY- THIRD 

No nation has a right to inter- 
meddle in the internal concerns 
of another. 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

True friendship is a plant of slow 
growth. 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

While we are encircled in one 
band we shall possess the strength 
of a giant and there will be none 
who can make us afraid. 





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TWENTY- SI XTH 

More satisfaction would have re- 
sulted from a conversation of an 
hour or two, than from all the 
letters that can be written. 

TWENTY- SEVENTH 

Be candid and explicit. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Guard against the impostures of 
pretended patriotism. 

TWENTY-NINTH 

Though unconscious of intentional 
error, I am too sensible of my de- 
fects not to think it probable that 
£ I have committed many errors. 

THIRTIE TH 

No hedge will do for a safe en- 
closure where two or four footed 
hogs find it convenient to open a 
passage. 

THIRTY-FIRST 

Whatever is done should be well 
done. 



We have errors to correct. 




FIRS T 

We must take human nature as 
we find it. 

SECOND 

A character is valuable to all 
men, and not less so to a spec- 
ulator. 

THIRD 

I have spent a greater part of my 
life, and that not the least pleas- 
ing, in rural affairs. 

FOURTH 

Preserve good faith and an un- 
biassed conscience, and leave the 
rest to the good sense of our own 
citizens. 

FIFTH 

Nothing short of self-respect, and 
that justice which is essential to 
national character, ought to in- 
volve us in war. 









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April 

SIXTH 

If nothing impeaching my honor 
or honesty is said, I care little for 
the rest. 

SEVENTH 

It is absolutely necessary, if you 
mean to make any figure upon 
the stage, that you should take 
the first steps right. 

EIGHTH 

Men in responsible situations 
can not, like those in private life, 
be governed solely by the dictates 
of their own inclination. 

NINTH 

Infallibility not being the attribute 
of man, we ought to be cautious 
in censuring the opinions and 
conduct of one another. 

TENTH 

Make justice and impartiality the 
lines by which to walk. 



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April 

ELEVENTH 

Two or three years of good crops 
and a ready market put every one 
in good humor; and in some in- 
stances they even impute to gov- 
ernment what is due only to the 
goodness of Providence. 

TWELFTH 

To attempt to please everybody 
is the surest way to please nobody. 

THIRTEENTH 




To delay justice is to deny it. 

FOURTEENTH 

Nothing but experience can dem- 
onstrate golden dreams to be the 
vision only of an uninformed or 
indigested imagination. 

FIFTEENTH 

r The more there are above you, 
the greater your exertions should 
be to ascend. 






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April 

SIXTEENTH 

The malevolence of man is not 
to be avoided. 

SEVENTEENTH 

Let there be no change in the 
Constitution by usurpation. 

EIGHTEENTH 



I am no more disposed to squan- 
der than to stint. 





NINETEENTH 

Liberty, when it begins to take 
root, is a plant of rapid growth. 

TWENTIETH 

The multiplication of useful ani- 
mals is a common blessing to 
mankind. 

TWENTY-FIRS T 

Never let an indigent person ask 
'j without receiving something, if 
you have the means. 



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TWENTY-SECOND 

It is by no means my desire that 
you should exercise more than is 
good for your health. 

TWENTY- THIRD 



Our general government can 
never be in any danger of degen- 
erating into a monarchy, an oli- 
garchy, an aristocracy, or any 
other despotic or oppressive form, 
so long as there shall remain any 
virtue in the body of the people. 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

Nothing should be bought which 
can be made or done without. 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

Decency and cleanliness will al- 
ways be the first objects in the 
dress of a judicious and sensible 
man. 

TWENTY- SIXTH 

Wisdom and good example are 
necessary. 









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TWENTY- SEVENTH 

It would be repugnant to the vital 
principles of our government to 
exclude from public trusts talents 
and virtues unless accompanied 
by wealth. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 

It is not difficult for a person who 
has no ground on which to expect 
a thousand cents to talk with 
facility and ease of his expectation 
of receiving ten times as many 
dollars. 

TWENTY-NINTH 

Providence will not suffer the dis- 
contented among ourselves to 
produce more than a temporary 
interruption to the permanent 
peace and happiness of this rising 
empire. 

THIRTIETH 

There is a very wide difference 
between getting tenants and get- 
ting rent. 



Men's minds are as variant as their faces. 




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FIRST 

The commonalty err more through 
ignorance than design. 

SECOND 

Discriminate the spirit of liberty 
from that of licentiousness, cher- 
ishing the first, avoiding the last. 

THIRD 

The spirit of encroachment tends 
to consolidate the powers of all 
the departments of government in 
one, and thus to create, whatever 
the form of government, a real 
despotism. 

FOURTH 

Distinguish between oppression 
and the necessary exercise of 
authority. 

FIFTH 

Let the reins of government be 
braced and held with a steady 
hand. 













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SIXTH 

Experience has taught us that 
men will not adopt and carry into 
execution measures the best cal- 
culated for their own good, with- 
out the intervention of a coercive 
power. 

SEVENTH 

I would wish anything and every- 
thing essayed to prevent the 
effusion of blood. 

EIGHTH 

Steadily discountenance irregular 
*^* oppositions to acknowledged 
authority. 

NINTH 

Agriculture is of primary impor- 
tance. 

TENTH 

There are in this, as well as in 
all other countries, discontented 
characters. 



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ELEVENTH 

Pass by no faults or neglects, for 
overlooking one only serves to 
generate another. 

TWELFTH 



I only wish, whilst I am a servant 
of the people, to know the will of 
my masters, that I may govern 
myself accordingly. 

THIRTEENTH 

Can any instance be given, where 
the public has sold any com- 
modity upon as good terms as 
individuals have done it? 

FOURTEENTH 

Inveterate antipathies toward par- 
ticular nations and passionate at- 
tachments for others should be 
excluded. 

FIFTEENTH 

Men are extremely wanted. 







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SIXTEENTH 

I never say anything of a man 
that I have the slightest scruple 
of saying to him. 

SEVENTEENTH 

Nothing short of good sense and 
an easy, unaffected conduct can 
draw the line between prudery 
and coquetry. 

EIGHTEENTH 

The prosperity of our country will 
always have the first place in my 
thoughts. 

NINETEENTH 

I earnestly pray that the Om- 
nipotent Being . . . will never 
yield so fair a heritage of free- 
dom [America] a prey to anarchy 
or despotism. 

TWENTIETH 

It is not easy for a man to throw 
the first stone without having it 
returned to him. 



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TWENTY-FIRST 

The mass of our citizens require 
no more than to understand a 
question to decide it properly. 

TWENTY- SECOND 

Light reading may amuse for the 
moment, but it leaves nothing 
solid behind. 

TWENTY- THIRD 

Guard against imbibing hasty and 
unfavorable opinions of any one. 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

Talkativeness and vanity may be 
humored. 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

If it can be esteemed a happiness 
to live in an age productive of 
great and interesting events, we 
of the present age are highly 
favored. 

TWENTY- SIXTH 





Be courteous to all, but intimate 
with few. 






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TWENTY- SE VENTH 

Be always prepared for war, but 
never unsheath the sword except 
in self-defence, as long as justice 
and our essential rights to national 
respectability can be preserved 
without it. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 

I have never had such confidence 
in my own faculty of judging as 
to be tenacious of the opinions I 
may have imbibed in doubtful 
cases. 

TWENTY-NINTH 

I conceive it a duty incumbent 
(! upon me to assert a just right. 

THIRTIETH 




To constitute a dispute there 
must be two parties. 

THIRTY-FIRS T 

I have always regarded marriage 
as the most interesting event in a 
man's life. 



3une 

A good moral character is the first essential 
in a man. 




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Do justice to all, and never forget 
that we are Americans. 

SECOND 

Let our rights be claimed, and 
maintained, with a dignified firm- 
ness. 

THIRD 

We ought not to look back, un- 
less it is to derive useful lessons 
from past errors. 

FOURTH 

1 resolved firmly that no man 
should ever justly charge me with 
deception. 

FIFTH 

Every motive of self-preservation, 
of liberty, of happiness, has a 
claim upon our efforts. 

SIXTH 

It is at all times easier to make 
enemies than friends. 










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SEVENTH 

The most sincere neutrality is 
not a sufficient guard against the 
depredations of nations at war. 

EIGHTH 

If we desire to avoid insult, we 
must be able to repel it. 

NINTH 

It is on great occasions only, and 
after time has been given for cool 
and deliberate reflection, that the 
real voice of the people can be 
known. 

TENTH 

The party taking advantage of the 
distresses of another will lose in- 
finitely more in the opinion of 
mankind and in subsequent events 
than he will gain by the stroke of 
the moment. 



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Young military men, who want to 
reap the harvest of laurels, don't 
care, I suppose, how many seeds 
of war are sown. 

TWELFTH 

Nations act for their own benefit 
and not for the benefit of others, 
unless both interests happen to 
be assimilated. 

THIRTEENTH 



Give to mankind the magnan- 
imous and not too novel example 
of a people always guided by an 
exalted justice and benevolence. 

FOURTEENTH 

Good company will always be 
found much less expensive than 
bad. 

FIFTEENTH 

Imaginary wants are indefinite 
and oftentimes insatiable. 







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SIXTEENTH 

To the interest of your country 
all inferior considerations must 
yield. 

SEVENTEENTH 

The army is a dangerous instru- 
ment to play with. 

EIGHTEENTH 

Every man who is in the vigor of 
life ought to serve his country in 
whatever line it requires and he 
is fit for. 

NINETEENTH 

Unfortunately the nature of man 
is such that the experience of 
others is not attended to as it 
ought to be. 

TWENTIETH 



Few things will bear delay, but 
those of experiment worst of all. 



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TWENTY-FIRST 

Peace ought to be pursued with 
unremitting zeal. 

TWENTY-SECOND 

Conscience seldom comes to a 
man's aid when he is in the zenith 
of health, and revelling in pomp 
and luxury upon ill-gotten gains. 

TWENTY- THIRD 




There is no resource so firm for 
the government of the United 
States as the affections of the 
people, guided by an enlightened 
policy. 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

If justice is lacking, we ought to 
render it. 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

All, except desperate men, look 
before they leap. 







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TWENTY- SIXTH 

I am sure there never was a 
people who had more reason to 
acknowledge a divine interposi- 
tion in their affairs than those of 
the United States. 

TWENTY-SEVENTH 

In some instances, by acting re- 
ciprocally, heroes have made 
poets, and poets heroes. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 




If we receive favors, we must 
grant favors. 

TWENTY-NINTH 

Let your promotion result from 
your own application and from 
intrinsic merit, not from the labors 
of others. 

TH I RTI E TH 



Rum is, in my opinion, the bane 
of morals and the parent of idle- 
ness. 



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FIRST 

A free people ought not only to 
be armed, but disciplined. 

SECOND 

That this government, though not 
actually perfect, is one of the best 
in the world, I have little doubt. 

THIRD 

The principle by which my con- 
duct has been actuated through- 
out life would not suffer me, in 
any great emergency, to withhold 
any services I might render, re- 
quired by my country. 

FOURTH 

The foundation of a great empire 
is laid, and I please myself with I 
a persuasion that Providence will 
not leave it imperfect. 

FIFTH 

My whole life has been devoted 
to the service of my country. 








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SIXTH 

I shall sincerely rejoice to see 
that the American Revolution has 
been productive of happy con- 
sequences on both sides of the 
Atlantic. 

SEVENTH 

May our country never want props 
to support the glorious fabric. 

EIGHTH 

No morn ever dawned more fa- 
vorably than ours. 

NINTH 

Teach the people themselves to 
know and to value their own 



rights. 



TENTH 




Nothing but harmony, honesty, 
industry, and frugality are neces- 
O sary to make us a great and 
happy nation. 



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ELEVENTH 

Every one has a right to form 
and adopt whatever government 
they like best to live under them- 
selves. 

TWELFTH 

Virtue and vice cannot be allied. 

THIRTEENTH 

All obstructions to the adminis- 
tration of the laws are destructive 
of fundamental principle and of 
fatal tendency. 

FOURTEENTH 

We may spin the thread of econ- 
omy till it breaks. 

FIFTEENTH 

Rise early, that by habit it may 
become familiar, agreeable, 
healthy, and profitable. 

SIXTEENTH 





The people, when rightly informed, 
will decide in a proper manner. 







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5£ VENTEENTH 

Bargains are either binding in all 
their parts, or are of no use at all. 

EIGHTEENTH 

A man who will defraud another 
who confides in him is surely a 
greater villain than one who robs 
boldly at the risk of his life. 

NINE TEENTH 

My primary objects have been to 
preserve the country in peace if 
I can, and to be prepared for war 
if I can not. 

TWENTIETH 

To be a sensible and honest man 
are qualities too rare and precious 
not to merit one's particular es- 
teem. 

TWENTY-FIRST 

It is time for the age of knight- 
errantry and mad-heroism to be 
at an end. 



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Coercion would be extremely 
painful to me; but if advice, re- 
monstrance, and gentle methods 
will not answer the purpose, 
others must be taken. 

TWENTY- THIRD 

We must walk, as other countries 
have done, before we can run. 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

I am sure the mass of citizens in 
these United States mean well. 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

I was no believer in the infalli- 
bility of the politics or measures 
of any man living. 

TWENTY- SI XTH 




To err is the lot of humanity, and 
never for a moment have 1 had 
the presumption to suppose I had 
not a full proportion of it. 








TWENTY- SEVENTH 

My earnest wish is that balsam 
may be poured into all the wounds. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 

We shall be guilty of many blun- 
ders. 

TWENTY-NINTH 



^ If a minority is to dictate to a 
, majority, there is an end put, at 
one stroke, to popular govern- 
i* ment. 

THIRTIETH 



The great Governor of the uni- 
verse has led us too long and too / 
far on the road to happiness and 
glory to forsake us in the midst 
of it. 

THIRTY- Fl RS T 

In republics of large extent the 
conflicts of popular factions are 
the chief, if not the only, inlets of 
usurpation and tyranny. 



Knowledge is the surest basis of public hap- 
piness. 




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FIRST 

Lay the foundation in national 
justice, faith, and honor. 

SECOND 

I trust that we are not too old, or 
too proud, to profit by the experi- 
ence of others. 

THIRD 

To speak evil of any one, unless 
there are unequivocal proofs of 
their deserving it, is an injury for 
v/hich there is no adequate repa- 
ration. 

FOURTH 



To an active external commerce, , 
the protection of a naval force is 
indispensable. 

FIFTH 

My public and private sentiments 
are at all times alike. 









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SIXTH 

There is a rank due to the United 
States among nations which will 
be withheld, if not absolutely lost, 
by the reputation of weakness. 

SEVENTH 

When there is no reason for ex- 
pressing an opinion, it is best to 
be silent. 

EIGHTH 

"There is a tide in all human af- 
fairs" that ought always to be 
watched. 

NINTH 

Honor, power, and the true inter- 

~*ests of this country must be 

measured by a continental scale. 

TENTH 

It is better to offer no excuse 
than a bad one. 



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ELEVENTH 

The independence and liberty you 
possess are the work of common 
dangers, sufferings, and suc- 
cesses. 

TWELFTH 

No taxes can be devised which 
are not more or less inconvenient 
and unpleasant. 

THIRTEENTH 

Never exceed a decent warmth. 

FOURTEENTH 

I think there is more wickedness 
than ignorance mixed in our 
councils. 

FIFTEENTH 

No earthly power can deprive me 
of the consolation of knowing that 
I have not, in the course of my 
administration, been guilty of a 
wilful error. 









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August 

SIXTEENTH 

If the laws are not to govern, no 
man can know how to conduct 
himself in safety. 



SEVENTEENTH 

One fault overlooked begets an- 
other, that a third, and so on. 

EIGHTEENTH 

The age between thirty-five and 
forty-five seems most likely to 
unite experience with activity. 

NINETEENTH 

When you have leisure, go into 
company of the best kind that the 
place you are in will afford. 

TWENTIETH 



It is easy to make acquaintances, 
but very difficult to shake them 
off. 



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^August 

TWENTY- FIRST 

Europe has a set of primary in- 
terests which to us have none or 
a very remote relation. 

TWENTY- SECOND 

I am only a servant of the public, 
and it is not for me to dispense 
with orders. 

TWENTY- THIRD 

Let your inexperience be guided 
by maturer advice. 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

The vices of large cities have 
their advantages and disadvan- 
tages in fitting a man for the great 
theatre of public life. 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

There is no proverb in the whole 
catalogue of them more true than 
that a penny saved is a penny 
got. 





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^August 

TWENTY-SIXTH 

Let your judgment always bal- 
ance well before you decide. 

TWENTY- SEVENTH 

I do not think vanity is a trait of 
my character. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 




{ The foundation of our empire was 
not laid in the gloomy age of ig- 
norance and superstition. 

TWENTY-NINTH 

Refrain from drink, which is the 
source of all evil. 

THIRTIE TH 

However pacific the general pol- 
icy of a nation may be, it ought 
never to be without an adequate 
stock of military knowledge for 
emergencies. 

THIRTY-FIRST 

There is no practice more dan- 
gerous than borrowing money. 



September 

Pursue a wise, just, and liberal policy toward 
one another, and keep good faith with the rest 
of the world. 




September 

FIRST 

Ignorance and design are difficult 
to combat. 

SECOND 

Few men have virtue to with- 
stand the highest bidder. 

THIRD 

It is having no fixed principle that 
creates our difficulties and dis- 
contents. 

FOURTH 

To accommodate differences, 
temper and mutual forbearance 
are requisite. 

FIFTH 

The people, not often seeing and 
frequently misled, must often feel 
before they can act right; but 
then, evils of this nature seldom 
fail to work their own cure. 








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SIXTH 

The period is not very remote 
when the benefits of a liberal and 
free commerce will pretty gen- 
erally succeed to the devasta- 
tions and horrors of war. 

SEVENTH 

I shall never relinquish the right 
of judging in my concerns to any 
man living while I have health 
and strength to look into my own 
concerns. 

EIGHTH 

A people possessed of the spirit 
of commerce, who see and who 
will pursue their own advantages, 
may achieve almost anything. 

NINTH 

Truth will ultimately prevail 
where there is pains taken to 
bring it to light. 



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September 

TENTH 

Virtue or morality is a necessary 
spring of popular government. 

ELEVENTH 

Minds soured by distress are eas- 
ily rankled. 

TWELFTH 

I have never been more unceas- 
ingly employed ; I hope for good, 
but God alone knows. 

THIRTEENTH 




It is not difficult, by concealment 
of some facts and exaggeration of 
others, to bias a well-meaning 
mind. 

FOURTEENTH 

Avoid gaming, a vice productive 
of every possible evil. 

FIFTEEN TH 

May the enlightened policy of the 
present day diffuse to all men 
those blessings to which they are 
entitled. 






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September 

SIXTEENTH 

It is the nature of republicans, 
who are nearly in a state of 
equality, to be extremely jealous 
as to the disposal of all honorary 
or lucrative offices. 

SEVENTEENTH 

When a people shall have be- 
come incapable of governing 
themselves, and fit for a master, 
it is of little consequence from 
what quarter he comes. 

EIGHTEENTH 

Against the insidious wiles of for- 
eign influence the jealousy of a 
free people ought to be constantly 
awake. 

NINETEENTH 




It is my wish to have my mind, 
and my actions, which are the 
, : . result of contemplation, as free 
as the air. 



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TWENTIETH 

It has been a maxim with me 
throughout life neither to pro- 
mote nor prevent a matrimonial 
engagement. 

TWENTY-FIRS T 



Too much zeal may create sus- 
picion. 

TWENTY-SECOND 




Time is too powerful for sophistry. 
TWENTY- THIRD 

My opinion is that emigrants will 
come hither as fast as the true 
interest and policy of the United 
States will be benefited by foreign 
population. 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

Evils must be first felt. 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

Our constitution enjoins that the 
will of the majority shall prevail. 







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TWENTY- SIXTH 




In proportion as the structure of 
government gives force to public 
opinion, it is essential that public 
opinion should be enlightened. 

TWENTY- SEVENTH 

The greater the chaos, the greater 
the merit in bringing forth order. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 




I can defy malignancy itself to 
ascribe partiality or interested 
motives to any of my nominations. 

TWENTY-NINTH 

May union and brotherly affec- 
tion be perpetual! 

THIRTIETH 

There can be no greater error 
than to expect or calculate upon 
real favors from nation to nation. 



October 



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FIRST 

It has always been a source of 
serious regret with me to see the 
youth of these United States sent 
to foreign countries for the pur- 
pose of education. 

SECOND 

Maintain all in the secure and 
tranquil enjoyment of the rights 
of person and property. 

THIRD 

Select the most deserving only 
for friendship. 

FOURTH 

When victory more than truth is 
the palm contended for, "the' 
post of honor is a private station." 

FIFTH 

In all important matters, deliber- 
ate maturely, but execute 
promptly and vigorously. 







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SIXTH 

Nothing can better deserve your 
patronage than the promotion of 
science and literature. 

SEVENTH 

A national university in this coun- 
try is a thing to be desired. 

EIGHTH 

Tis our policy to steer clear of 
alliances with any portion of the 
foreign world. 

NINTH 

My fellow citizens understand the 
true principles of government and 

liberty. 

TENTH 

Acquire, by industry and applica- 
tion, such knowledge as your sit- 
uation enables you to obtain, as 
will be useful to you in life. 

ELEVENTH 

I was never among the sanguine 
ones. 



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October 

TWELFTH 

The nation which indulges toward 
another an habitual hatred or an 
habitual fondness is in some de- 
gree a slave. 

THIRTEENTH 

No man can, with propriety or a 
good conscience, correct others 
for a fault he is guilty of himself. 

FOURTEENTH 

Differences in political opinion 
are as unavoidable as, to a cer- 
tain point, they may perhaps be 
necessary. 

FIFTEENTH 

The company in which you im- 
prove most will be least expen- 
sive to you. 

SIXTEENTH 

The life of a husbandman is hon- 
orable, is amusing, and, with ju- 
dicious management, is profitable. 








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October 

SEVENTEENTH 

I was no party man myself, and 
the first wish of my heart was, if 
parties did exist, to reconcile 
them. 

EIGHTEENTH 

How often do we find recom- 
mendations given without merit 
to deserve them ! 

NINETEENTH 

As much wisdom has pervaded 
our councils as reason and com- 
mon policy dictated. 

TWENTIE TH 

Studies and amusements, made 
\ to go hand in hand with each 

other and used in their proper 

(f seasons, will ever be found a 

" mutual assistance to each other. 

TWENTY- FI RS T 



We are plodding on in the dull 
road of peace and politics. 



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October 

TWENTY-SECOND 

Avoid bad company, which is the 
bane of good morals, economy, 
and industry. 

TWENTY- THIRD 



A government of as much vigor 
as is consistent with the perfect 
security of liberty is indispensable. 

TWENTY-FOURTH 



The more knowledge you acquire 
the greater will be the probability 
of your succeeding, and the 
greater will be your thirst for 
more. 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

Promote, as an object of primary 
importance, institutions for the 
general diffusion of knowledge. 

TWENTY-SIXTH 





A train of evils, in republican gov- 
ernments, must often be sorely 
felt before they can be removed. 







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October 

TWENTY- SEVENTH 

In all free governments, conten- 
tions in elections will take place, 
and whilst it is confined to our 
own citizens, it is not to be re- 
gretted. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 

Our rising republics have the 
good wishes of all the philoso- 
phers, patriots, and virtuous men 
in all nations. 

TWENTY-NINTH 

Persuade him to adopt a line of 
conduct that will make him more 
agreeable; otherwise, however 
splendid his abilities, they will be 
entirely useless. 

THIRTIETH 

My politics are plain and simple. 
THIRTY-FIRST 

Moderate the fury of party spirit. 



Actions, not words, are the true criterion of 
the attachment of friends. 




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Principles, not men. 

SECOND 

I write or say nothing I wish to 
conceal, my politics being 
straight, and my views undis- 
guised. 

THIRD 

It is infinitely better to have a few 
good men than many indifferent 
ones. 

FOURTH 

Domestic and rural enjoyments, 
in my estimation, far surpass the 
highest pageantry of the world. 

FIFTH 

The affairs of this country can 
not go amiss; there are so many 
watchful guardians of them, and 
such infallible guides. 









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5lovember 

SIXTH 

Keep the United States free from 
political connections with every 
other country, see them inde- 
pendent of all, and under the in- 
fluence of none. 

SEVENTH 

Ridicule begets enmity not easy 
to be forgotten, but which might 
easily be avoided. 

EIGHTH 

It is much easier to impede than 
force a sale. 

NINTH 



We do not wish to be the only 

people who may taste the sweets 

"*" of an equal and good government. 

TENTH 

Past experience, and the admon- 
ition of a few, have but little 
weight. 



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ELEVENTH 

Smaller societies must prepare 
the way for greater. 

TWELFTH 



We are not to expect perfection 
in this world. 

THIRTEENTH 


Place guard upon the avenues - 
which lead to idleness and vice. 




FOURTEENTH 

Overgrown military establish- 
ments, under any form of govern- 
ment, are inauspicious to liberty. 

FIFTEENTH 

Americans will fight for their lib- 
erties and property. 

SIXTEENTH 



Money, we know, will fetch any- 
thing and command the service 
of any man. 







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November 

SEVENTEENTH 

Our prosperity rests on solid 
foundations. 

EIGHTEENTH 

It may not impossibly be found 
that the corruption and ambition 
of individual citizens are more 
formidable adversaries of the 
unity of our empire than any in- 
herent difficulties in the scheme. 

NINE TEENTH 

There is a natural and necessary 
progression from the extreme of 
anarchy to the extreme of tyranny. 

TWENTIE TH 

It has been a spectacle, display- 
ing to the highest advantage the 
principles of republican govern- 
ment, to behold the most and 
least wealthy of our citizens 
standing in the same ranks as 
common soldiers. 



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Stovember 

TWENTY-FIRST 

If the citizens of the United 
States should not be entirely free 
and happy, the fault will be their 
own. 

TWENTY-SECOND 

Our Western country, the second 
land of promise ! 

TWENTY- THIRD 

Remember that timely disburse- 
ments to prepare for danger fre- 
quently prevent much greater 
disbursements to repel it. 

TWENTY-FOURTH 

I think it folly to attempt more 
than we can execute. 

TWENTY-FIFTH 

Of all the dispositions and habits 
which lead to political prosperity, 
religion and morality are indis- 
pensable supports. 








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TWENTY-SI XTH 

Local politics and self-interested 
views obtrude themselves into 
every measure of public utility. 

TWENTY- SEVENTH 

Rewards, in proportion to the aids 
the public derives from them, are 
unquestionably due to all its serv- 
ants. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 



It is not every one who asketh 
that deserveth charity; all, how- 
ever, are worthy of the inquiry, 
or the deserving may suffer. 

TWENTY-NINTH 




I always distinguish between a 
cause and individuals. 

THIRTIETH 

When we assumed the soldier we 
did not lay aside the citizen. 



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^December 

The name of American must always exult the 
just pride of patriotism. 




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^December 

FIRST 

I never spared one that was ac- 
cused of cowardice. 

SECOND 

No man's sentiments are more 
opposed to any kind of restraint 
upon religious principles than 
mine are. 

THIRD 

Whilst we are accusing others of 
injustice, we should be just our- 
selves. 

FOURTH 

If I am deceived in my opinion, I 
shall acknowledge my error. 

FIFTH 

I never did give advice to a woman 
who was setting out on a matri- 
monial voyage. 







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SIXTH 

Every fool will have his notions; 
and why may not I ? 

SEVENTH 

J Silence, in some cases, speaks 
more intelligently than the sweet- 
est eloquence. 





EIGHTH 

Honorable scars speak the ful- 
ness of their merit. 



NINTH 

Who does not rather envy than I 
regret a death that gives birth to 
"*"■* honor and glorious memory? 

TENTH 



It is no longer a time for pointing 
out difficulties. 



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December 

ELEVENTH 

Every person is, most certainly 
ought to be, the best judge of 
what relates to his own interest 
and concerns. 

TWELFTH 

It is an irksome thing to a free 
man to be in any ways hampered 
in debt. 

THIRTEENTH 

Maintain the liberty which we 
have derived from our ancestors. 

FOURTEENTH 

I am not afraid to die. 

FIFTEENTH 



I leave you with undefiled hands, 
an uncorrupted heart, and with 
ardent vows to Heaven for the 
welfare and happiness of that 
country in which I and my fore- 
fathers drew our first breath. 






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December 

SIXTEENTH 

System should in all things be 
aimed at; for in execution it ren- 
ders everything more easy. 

SE VENTEENTH 

There requires nothing more to 
elucidate a right than to offer a 
candid exhibition of the case, 
supported by facts. 

EIGHTEENTH 

A natural parent has only two 
things principally to consider: the 
improvement of his son, and the 
finances to do it with. 

NINETEENTH 

Let your heart feel for the afflic- 
tions and distresses of every one. 

TWENTIETH 



Envious of none, I am determined 
to be pleased with all. 



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December 

TWENTY-FIRS T 

Arbitrary power is most easily 
established on the ruins of liberty 
abused to licentiousness. 



TWENTY-SECOND 

I conceive a knowledge of books 
is the basis upon which other 
knowledge is built. 




TWENTY-THIRD 

To please everybody is impos- 
sible. 



TWENTY-FOURTH 

Be circumspect in admitting sus- 
picions or proceeding upon them 
without sufficient evidence. 



TWENTY-FIFTH 

Everything will come right at last. 












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TWENTY-SIXTH 

Peace with all the world is my 



sincere wish. 



TWENTY- SEVENTH 

It is not my wish to hurt the feel- 
ings of any one. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 



Let us look to our national char- 
acter, and to things beyond the 
present moment. 

TWENTY-NINTH 

It is in vain, I perceive, to look 
for ease and happiness in a world 

of troubles. 

TH I R TIETH 

Future years can not compensate 
for lost days. 






THIRTY-FIRS T 



"T is well. 



